Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of HowToContribute

Timestamp:

08/24/07 06:31:35 (6 years ago)

Author:

crschmidt

Comment:

rearrange

HowToContribute

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     1. Will not cause a dispute in the community -- if there is reason to believe that the change might be controversial, the ticket and patch should be submitted to the SteeringCommittee for a vote.
   * We consider the act of committing code to the repository to be implicit acceptance of the project's published procedures.
-  * When committing code changes, include the ticket number that the commit is designed to resolve in the commit message, for future tracking. Code changes should not be made without a corresponding ticket. Trac will automatically pick up on messages with text in a specific format, to help you manage tickets from commit messages. Including text of the form:
+  * Commit messages should be informative, and should mention any author of the patch if the author is not the committer.
+  * When committing code changes, include the ticket number that the commit is designed to resolve in the commit message, for future tracking. Code 
+changes should not be made without a corresponding ticket. Trac will automatically pick up on messages with text in a specific format, to help you manage tickets from commit messages. Including text of the form:
     * (Closes #925.) -- Closes the ticket (with the revision number and commit message added as a comment).
     * (References #925.) -- Adds a comment to the ticket with the commit message.
-  * Commit messages should be informative, and should mention any author of the patch if the author is not the committer.
   * If the patch is from a new contributor, ensure that the user has sent in a [wiki:CLA] before committing and add the contributor's name to doc/authors.txt when committing.